What is Cumulative GPA?

A cumulative GPA is like your report card that keeps growing as you learn more things in school.

Imagine you have a piggy bank where every time you get a good grade, you put some coins inside. At the end of the year, you count all those coins to see how well you did. A cumulative GPA does something similar, it adds up your grades from all the classes you’ve taken over several years so far.

Think of each class like a different kind of candy. Some candies are bigger (like getting an A), and some are smaller (like getting a C). Your GPA is like how many big or small candies you've collected in one year.

But the cumulative GPA doesn’t just look at one year, it adds up all your candies from every year you’ve been in school. So if you had mostly big candies in first grade and some smaller ones in second, your cumulative GPA would show how many total candies (or points) you've collected over both years.

It's like having a giant piggy bank that keeps getting bigger each year, and your cumulative GPA is the number of coins inside it.